Poem: Time Never Ceases

I already published this poem on this blog under a different name, but I realized I had an updated version I revised in my creative writing class that made it more... poetic, I guess. It was kind of dumb in the original version for just being about food. This one adds some emotion into it by moving up the ladder of abstraction every once in a while and eliminating clichés.

Time Never Ceases

Drinks get warm

Food gets cold

Crackers get stale

Friends get annoying

Bread gets hard

Cereal gets soggy

Soda gets flat

Clothes tighten

Fruit spoils

Vegetables wilt

Ice cream melts

Children grow up

Gravy lumps

Cheese molds

Eyesight blurs

Milk sours

Hair grays

Meat rots 

Pets die

Time never ceases.